"THE WORSE FOR WEAR”
CHEYLESMORE’S ADMISSIONS UNUSUAL CASE ENDS. Australian and N.Z. Coble Association. 'Received December 5, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. In tlie Clieylesmoro divorce case, Lady Cheylesinore was greatly distressed and sobbed bitterly during a close examination. She said that her husband and his brother had been dreadfully drunk even while their mother was in Canada. Their mother was never cross about anything they did, and both were spoilt. She quoted extracts from her husband’s diary: “Had a hectic evening. Much worse for wear. Home with two bottles of fizz and two of port. Very tight. Awfully sorry for Norab.” Counsel, in his address, pointed put that somebody of the Cheylesmor© family had perpetrated a hostile act towards the wife as far back as 1919 by sending to Tasmania for her birth certificate. Surely the mother-in-law must have struck the court as being a masterful woman capable of being sweetly unkind. Judgment was reserved. Both husband and wife are petitioning for divorce, the husband in Canada and the wife in England. The Snt action is to establish the hus- '( jtsflttdi* The wife am *>W or ’
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12622, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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187"THE WORSE FOR WEAR” New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12622, 6 December 1926, Page 7
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